[26132] in Athena Bugs
RE: su and xlogin ignore digits after 8th character of rootpassword
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Husain A. Al-Mohssen)
Fri Oct 15 17:36:31 2004
From: "Husain A. Al-Mohssen" <husain@mit.edu>
To: "'Greg Hudson'" <ghudson@mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 17:33:35 -0400
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Oh and now even though I updated the /etc/sysconfig/athconfig file thee
computer stull does not recognize chars after the 8th. Are you sure this
is not a bug?
Hsuain
-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Hudson [mailto:ghudson@MIT.EDU]
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 12:45 PM
To: Husain Ali Al-Mohssen
Cc: Erica H Peterson; bugs@mit.edu
Subject: Re: su and xlogin ignore digits after 8th character of
rootpassword
On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 09:15, Husain Ali Al-Mohssen wrote:
> Doesn't it seem absurd to you to have this setting at all let alone
have
> it set to no?
Well, it's Red Hat's decision, not ours, but I assume the reasoning is
that if you want to share a passwd file between Red Hat Linux and
another system which doesn't support MD5 passwords, you can't be using
MD5 passwords.
